Humor (Fiction)
Tales of St. Austin's
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P. G. Wodehouse
Early short stories from Wodehouse focusing on life at St. Austin's, a fictional English public school. Also, Included are four humorous ess…
Still - William
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Richmal Crompton
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales
The Bab Ballads
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W. S. Gilbert
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors…
The Steel Flea
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Nikolai Leskov
An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tell…
A Valentine
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Lewis Carroll
This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)
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Edwin Abbott Abbott
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the prot…
Mary Broome
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Allan Monkhouse
Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…
My Buried Treasure
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Richard Harding Davis
"This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for t…
The Adventures of a Suburbanite
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Ellis Parker Butler
Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, t…
The Problem Club
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Barry Pain
The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…
Mother Goose for Grownups
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Guy Wetmore Carryl
Mother Goose for Grownups is a delightfully silly collection of parodies on well-known Mother Goose tales by Guy Wetmore Carryl. (Summary by…
Ellis Parker Butler Short Story Collection, Vol 1
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Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. These are eight…
The Charwoman's Daughter
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James Stephens
A humorous tale about a poor Irish charwoman living in the slums of Dublin, and her innocent teenage daughter, Mary Makebelieve, whose first…
Pomander Walk
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Louis Napoleon Parker
Pomander Walk is a unique street in London, and in this humorous novel we meet the unusual residents. It was originally produced as a stage …
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 07
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the seventh volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 autho…
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons
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James Francis Thierry
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Record…
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Mon…
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L. A. Abbott
This work the author claims is indeed a true story of how he happened to be married seven times to seven different women and the rollicking,…
Biltmore Oswald
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J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …
Mince Pie
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Christopher Morley
Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: &quo…